It would be easy to post "beds are high-key slept on". It might even gain some traction, it's got the right words in the right order. But no, it would lessen us both - It would be as if we were chewing at the cud in the field, contented only by the thoughtless motion.

NEW: This is a story I worked really hard on. I spoke to four American trans people about why they're claiming asylum in Canada or the Netherlands. It's an eye-opening window into just how unsafe people now feel here — and what drove them to that point. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.

Right, that's fucking it for this week. I'm clocking off and drinking some fucking whiskey. Take care of yourselves 🖤

NEW: The ultraconservative think tank behind Project 2025 is pushing Trump's FBI to treat 'violent transgender extremism' as a new domestic terror threat. Their definition is incredibly wide, and suggests that "cisgender" and "deadnaming" are extremist terms. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

girls I am now at the level of midlife tranny spoonie angst that when I type “wahg w” into youtube it immediately and correctly autosuggests “what was I made for billie eilish” so uhhh pray for me ig

NEW: The ultraconservative think tank behind Project 2025 is pushing Trump's FBI to treat 'violent transgender extremism' as a new domestic terror threat. Their definition is incredibly wide, and suggests that "cisgender" and "deadnaming" are extremist terms. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

evergreen skeet:

Back in maybe 2020 a local high school kid interviewed me for their project and asked me if I thought social media was net good or net bad. "The internet is a net good, for sure," I said. "But social media? That's a different thing, and I lean marginally towards net bad."

Whooof.

I spoke with five families in the D.C. region about what it's like raising trans kids in Trump's backyard. They shared fears about being personally targeted by the federal government and their joys in raising kids that are learning to express themselves authentically in a difficult world.

sorry what

The Kant Car

housemates are watching The Pacific and discussing segregation in the US army and I am begging someone, anyone, to make a goddamn movie or series about the 761st tank battalion

Jesus Christ.

As a break from the Interesting Times, here's an extremely silly story: The reanimated corpse of noughties music-sharing titan LimeWire (now puppeted by NFT-mongers) has bought the branding rights to Fyre Festival. Why? Sorry, I don't understand the question www.the-independent.com/tech/limewir...

“[Businesses] expressed concern that the proposals would… force staff ‘into the unacceptable role of gender police’.” Eye-opening story by @milliecooke.bsky.social on the UK’s slow-motion trans rights train crash www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

yeah see this is one of the most annoying parts of transition. it’s like that bit when you come out of a deep depressive episode and suddenly realise with horror that now you have to actually shower and care for yourself and cook meals and shit except it’s for your entire life

NEW from me: CBS News staffers who spoke with The Independent said that new owner David Ellison has "lost the trust" of the newsroom because he "lied" to them about not wanting to politicize the network and company. "He's just a liar," one told me. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Important to be clear-eyed about the reality of Charlie Kirk's social media machine: ⦁ Built movement that mocked diversity initiatives, called trans identity a “mental delusion," sowed baseless suspicion about vaccines and election fraud ... wapo.st/3IjwuEC

I actually did a whole TEDx talk about basically this in 2019, back in my beardy pre-transition days! youtu.be/OP2LYQ6FaQ4?... I won’t say it brings me no pleasure to have been right. But being wrong would have been so much nicer.

Here's a great thread explaining the context properly and dispelling the bulk of the pseudo-expert commentary swirling around this site bsky.app/profile/drew...

It’s a kind of bargain, I think. Wholly implicit, even unconscious. The killers get their heart’s desire: notoriety, & a whole society dancing idiotically to their tune. But the bullshit-industrial complex is happy to dance, in exchange for a space into which it can project its darkest fantasies.

oh for fuck’s sake

Ma'am, you said it was "offensive" that Sarah McBride thought she was your "equal".

More than anything, I just wish things were not like this.

As many feared, the logic of Skrmetti is now being applied to trans adults too.

curb episode where larry gets dragged to a birthday party for a guy he doesn't know and decides to write something funny in the guestbook. cut to present day, larry's at home watching the evening news: "comedian larry david wrote 'happy birthday, i know your little secret' in jeffrey epstein's book"

Jesus Christ, THANK GOD. I saw a future stretch out before me of people trying to cancel me over my likes and me cringing “no! no!!! I was using it as a BOOKMARK!!!”

NEWS: House Appropriations Committee Republicans released their spending bill for Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies. The legislation would prohibit taxpayer dollars for any type of gender-affirming care for transgender people. This would include programs like Medicaid

VENUS a mini comic about girls night uniting us all 1/2

This is honestly an incredible interview that makes me very much want to actually read a Reacher novel.

Jesus was a grungler. ⛵️

This popular meme is a joke about the sexual assault and murder of a trans man, Brandon Teena. Most don’t know that. Now you do. Now spend some time thinking about why you don’t know that.

I am proud at least that it is our very top story at The Independent.

losing my shit at tom clancy's daughter immediately setting this to her banner after seeing it

Really, the only truly surprising part of that sentence is “Tom Clancy’s”.

"Tom Clancy's trans daughter is into 40K" is a sentence that has probably never been seen before in human history.

okay but why is it standing so cuntily??

"The study shows no evidence Labour was able to appeal to more anti-immigration supporters to make up for its loss of Labour voters. "Instead, the speech made the issue of immigration 3 percentage points more salient." Cool! Fantastic! Great work everyone! www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

NEW from me: Republicans have spent years falsely blaming trans people for mass shootings — a naked attempt to manufacture pretext for driving us from public life. Now, with two kids dead at the hands of a trans attacker, the hammer is starting to fall. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Whatever your stance on UK incitement laws, it's important to be clear on WHY Graham Linehan was actually arrested. Pic 1: the supposed tweet Pic 2: the cited law Pic 3: potentially relevant law It seems hard to deny that Linehan was calling for violence. Whether he did so /illegally/ is murkier.

as a big fan of the original book, this very silly review is making me absolutely vibrate with excitement FRANKENSTEIN'S 👏 MONSTER 👏 IS 👏 HOT DEL TORO IS RIGHT AND HE SHOULD SAY IT!!!!!!!!!!! 😭

but this makes no sense? all dogs are already autistic

Hello everyone! I am working on a story for The Guardian about how Chicagoans are preparing for the possible arrival of federal troops, following President Trump's statements on the matter. Right now, I'm looking for residents, community organizers, business owners, and other folks to talk to!

Anyone who can see the last few days of coverage from Minneapolis out of right wing media can see the Trump administration and red states are pretty clearly going to investigate HRT and gender-affirming care. Expect investigations from HHS and DOJ.

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

Frankly this was inevitable as long as OpenAI chatlogs were readable by the company. All big social networks have systems like this; eventually political pressure will force you to build one.

This has now been confirmed by media translations of the shooter’s manifesto